Editing David Lloyd George (section)

==== Fall from power, 1922 ====

The coalition was dealt its final blow in October 1922. The Conservatives felt let down by France over the [[Chanak Crisis]], with Law telling France, "We cannot act alone as the policeman of the world."<ref>{{cite book|author=Robert Boyce|author-link=Robert Boyce (historian)|title=The Great Interwar Crisis and the Collapse of Globalization|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s3qHDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA125|year=2009|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan UK|page=125|isbn=978-0-230-28076-2|access-date=1 October 2018|archive-date=29 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200729233816/https://books.google.com/books?id=s3qHDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA125|url-status=live}}</ref> The Conservative leader, [[Austen Chamberlain]], summoned a [[Carlton Club meeting, 19 October 1922|meeting of Conservative members of parliament]] at the [[Carlton Club]] to discuss their attitude to the Coalition in the forthcoming election. Chamberlain and most Conservative leaders supported Lloyd George; however, the rank and file rejected the coalition. The main attack came from [[Stanley Baldwin]], then President of the Board of Trade, who spoke of Lloyd George as a "dynamic force" who would break the Conservative Party. They sealed Lloyd George's fate on 19 October 1922 by voting in favour of the motion to end the coalition and fight the election "as an independent party, with its own leader and its own programme". Lloyd George submitted his resignation to the King that afternoon.{{sfn|Ramsden|1998|p=244}}<ref>{{cite book|last=Rowland|first=Peter|title=Lloyd George|year=1975|publisher=Barrie & Jenkins Ltd|location=London|isbn=0-214-20049-3|page=584|chapter=The Man at the Top, 1918–1922}}</ref>